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Culture:American
Title:rocking chair
Date Made:1800-1825
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: maple, ash; splint. paint
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Deerfield area
Measurements:overall: 43 3/8 x 23 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.; 110.1725 x 59.055 x 39.37 cm
Accession Number:  HD 0990
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Slat-back rocking chair with the original black paint, which has a history in the Allen Family of Deerfield. The chair has one straight slat over three arched slats; turned stiles continuing to plain legs; short arms with scrolled handgrips supported on thin turned supports that are attached to the top side stretchers; modern splint seat; turned front legs ending in flat feet; two heavy shaped rockers that seem grafted to the armchair form; and two turned front stretchers and two plain and one back stretcher. As early as 1762, Eliakim Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts, charged Elisha Porter "To putting rockers on a chair, 3/"; and Joseph Griswold, a cabinetmaker of Buckland, Massachusetts, charged a dollar for making "Chairs great & rocking" between 1804-1813.

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